Chapter 48: The Battle of Tundulu (1)
Just when the British army was discussing preparations to defend at Tondulu, Li Junhao also returned to his base, and Li Junhao shouted loudly after entering the base: "Is Lisa here, come out for me." ”
At this time, Lisa appeared on the screen and said, "What is the command of the commander here?" ”
At this time, Li Junhao grabbed the water cup on the table, drank all the water in the water cup, and said, "You will recruit two more divisions for me immediately." Liberation of Tondulu urgently. ”
After hearing this, Lisa said, "Commander, what are you going to do here?" You now have 1st Division, 2nd Division, 3rd Division, 4th Division, and 1st Guards Division. The total number of people is already more than 80,000. You're recruiting two divisions, that's more than 120,000 people. You have 120,000 troops in one province of Ruvuma, and now the total population of ******** is less than 20 million, and you have 120,000 people in each of the 21 provinces. In a country with a land area of less than 950,000 square kilometers, you are planning to mercenary 2.52 million people. You're pulling out all the young and middle-aged people of the country to serve as soldiers. The country's economy is not developing anymore. ”
After hearing Lisa's words, Lee Jun-ho said: "I know what you said, I can't pull up 2.52 million people in ********." Temporarily, my territory is small, and I can only kill each other through crowd tactics. I'm scared when the other person sees me. In the future, I will keep only one army in each province, and about 60,000 men will be enough. The total strength of the country is 1.3 million, and I still want to mix it up in World War II. ”
"It's good that you know, then I won't say more, militarists have never ended well." After listening to Li Junhao's words, Lisa said admonishingly:
"I know, you recruited me the two divisions I need. The Battle of Tundulu must not be sloppy, and the salted fish still has time to turn over. I had to be careful. Lee Jun-ho said
"Got it, the two divisions you want are already being recruited. The division commanders were Victor and Camille. The recruitment of the two divisions is expected to be completed in 12 hours. Lisa said:
In the end, after waiting for 12 or 12 hours, Li Junhao finally completed the recruitment in Li Junhao's anxious mood, and after the recruitment was completed, Li Junhao led the 5th and 6th Divisions and the 1st Guards Division to set off in a hurry.
After several hours of bumpy driving, Li Junhao and his entourage finally arrived at the temporary headquarters of the three divisions in Kandulu, when the three division commanders found Li Junhao's arrival and hurriedly walked out of the headquarters to welcome them.
After entering the headquarters, Nibron said to Li Junhao: "Commander, you are finally here. ”
When Lee Jun-ho heard Nibron's words, he said, "What's the matter, Major General Nebron." ”
At this time, the commander of the second division, Geriola, stood up and said, "Commander, you seem to have forgotten a very important matter. ”
Li Junhao asked puzzledly, "What's the matter?" ”
"It's the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief on the battlefield, and just now the three of us elected each other as commander-in-chief. But none dared to take over the position. Jeriola said:
"Why don't you dare, it's up to you to be the commander-in-chief. Nibron and Durabo are the deputy commanders-in-chief. Full responsibility for the campaign to liberate the city of Tondulu. Li Junhao said: Of course, the reason why Li Junhao arranged Jeriola as the commander-in-chief of this campaign is to test Jeriola's ability to strategically and comprehensively. For the position in Li Junhao's heart in the future, whether this person is competent. So Lee Jun-ho made this arrangement.
After Geriola took over as the commander-in-chief of the front, he quickly entered the role, got up and came to the map, picked up the map command pole, pointed to the map and said: "Look here, there is still here, these two places are 456 Heights and 358 Heights. The gorge between the two was a must for our army to attack Tunduru. In other words, if our army wants to attack here, it must first take these two high grounds. Otherwise, our army will fall into great passivity. ”
At this time, the commander of the first division, Nibron, stood up and said, "Then who will be the main force in the task of capturing these two high grounds?" How are they armed? ”
After hearing this, Jeriola said: "The British troops stationed on these two heights are the 44th Brigade and the 51st Brigade of the Royal Army and the 158th Brigade and 165th Brigade of the Servant Army. The total strength was about 35100 people, there was no heavy artillery, only 76. 38 2-mm mountain guns, none tanks. But the British struggled for the last. They were equipped with an unusually dense concentration of light and heavy machine guns. It's basically the same as our army. So it can't be taken lightly. ”
Jeriola paused and glanced at Li Junhao, Li Junhao's matter continued, and Jeriola said: "As for who will be the main attacker, my plan is to form the newly formed five divisions and six divisions to serve as the main force for the attack on these two heights, relying on honing the combat ability of the recruits, and secondly, concentrating more than 32,000 people in the two divisions to quickly take these two heights can severely hit the morale of the British army in the city and reduce some resistance for our army's next move." ”
After hearing this, the commander of the Fifth Division, Victor, and the commander of the Sixth Division, Camille, hurriedly stood up excitedly and said, "Please rest assured that the commander and commander-in-chief will complete the task." ”
At this time, Jeriola said: "You two don't patronize it first, I will only give you 6 hours on the basis of completing the target task, do you dare to take it now?" ”
After hearing this, Zhang Kamil of the Sixth Division took the lead and said: "Report to the commander-in-chief, please rest assured that our division will complete it within time, if not, I am willing to accept military legal sanctions." ”
Victor, the commander of the fifth division, also replied: "Please rest assured, commander-in-chief, I promise to complete the mission within the same time as Camille, if I can't do it, I won't come back, and I will die directly on the battlefield." ”
After hearing this, Li Junhao said: "I listen to what you say, but a soldier should have the courage to move forward, but he can't talk about life and death at every turn." We are officers and have to think about the lives and deaths of tens of thousands of people. So we have to have a cool head more than anything else. Jeriola you go on. ”
"Yes." After replying, Geriola continued: "After the 5th and 6th Divisions captured two high grounds, the other divisions turned their artillery and the 5th and 6th Divisions and 150-mm heavy artillery regiments into one place to bombard all the targets in the city that were considered to be of military importance. Let's wait until the end of the war to compensate the people who were injured by mistake. In addition, at the beginning of the shelling, all the main infantry forces of your five divisions were pushed to me 500 meters from the city wall. Do you all understand? ”
"Understood." The crowd collectively replied:
After listening to everyone's words, Jeriola said: "Everyone go and prepare, the fifth and sixth divisions must attack in half an hour." ”
"Yes." The two division commanders of the fifth and sixth divisions replied, and then everyone left the conference room collectively to arrange their combat missions.